Base Salary
$127k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build security primitives and services protecting MongoDB Atlas compute, networking, and identity across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Build secure-by-default infrastructure using AppArmor, SELinux, seccomp, cgroups, Kubernetes, and eBPF for runtime policy enforcement and system visibility.
- Develop APIs, automation, tooling, monitoring, logging, and alerting pipelines for CSPM, vulnerability management, and workload identity.
- Integrate security controls into CI/CD and Terraform infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Lead complex projects end-to-end from discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and long-term ownership.
- Collaborate with SRE, platform, and product engineering teams on secure architectures.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or similar roles, preferably with relevant security experience.
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Golang, Rust, Python, or C/C++, along with Terraform experience.
- Deep understanding of Linux, networking, and low-level systems fundamentals.
- Experience building security-related features or platforms such as runtime monitoring, CSPM, or vulnerability management.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and their security best practices and building blocks.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and security tools or ecosystems such as RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, eBPF, Falco, or Tetragon.
- Ability to evaluate failure modes, performance, observability, operability, security, and correctness.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex security concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- The role can be based in the New York City, Austin, Seattle, or San Francisco offices, or fully remote on standard East Coast business hours.
- Eligible employees may receive equity, employee stock purchase program participation, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks of fully paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, a 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings.
- MongoDB provides accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process.
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About MongoDB
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB's mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, our modern database platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today's wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.